泉谷 宋象賢에 대한 哀祭文 연구

Abstract

Focusing on ‘funeral orations(애제문)’, which were written to mourn over the dead, this study investigated the thoughts of writers of the time or later generations about Cheongok Song Sang-Hyun(宋象賢, 1551∼1592), who died in defense of his loyalty during the Japanese invasion of Korea, the way the nation and individuals condoled over him through public and private funeral orations, and the role of literature in mourning. The discussion results are as follows. First, seeing that the nine memorial service letters for Song Sang-Hyun(송상현) continuously repeated and applied variations to some key words, such as Salsinseongin(殺身成仁), Euijungeungyeong(義重恩輕), Danjwabudong(端坐不動), and Angogyeong(顔杲卿), it appears that he was worshiped as a symbol of ideated, normalized, and standardized fidelity. This implies that there were definite purpose and reason to highly enhance the great cause, pursued by him in the Joseon society for 200 years after his death, and it can be said that the nation actively adopted this through memorial service letters. Second, it was revealed that unlike memorial service letters, normal funeral orations expressed personal feelings to mourn and grieve over Song Sang-Hyun’s death. Third, memorial service letters were an advanced political form of literature to ceaselessly represent and worship a figure of man, who accorded with the ideology that the nation aimed at and to wipe away tears of the people and pacify at the state level, although outwardly, they expressed mourning. Fourth, funeral orations stated a sense of loss after his death with a variety of emotions like wailing, lamentation, anguish, shame, regret, sorrow, andpatheticalness, and it is ‘self-consolation and healing’ itself. These acts of emotional expression were a kind of ‘catharsis’. It is supposed that this study would provide another clue to the understanding of Cheongok Song Sang-Hyun and an opportunity to pay attention to the function of literature as one expedient to heal the car from the Japanese invasion of Korea in the Joseon Dynasty era.